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Land
Trusts, Field Stations, and the Future
of Land Stewardship in the West
Winter/Spring
Lecture Series
March 12, 2003
Making science relevant to management
and policy:
Lessons from the Pacific Northwest
12:00 Noon
University Union, Havasupai A/B
Art McKee, Director
Andrews Experimental Forest, Oregon State University
Description of Talk:
The presentation will be on how science can inform
natural resource management and policy using a couple of examples
from both Andrews Forest and Flathead Lake Bio Station--emphasizing
the importance of two-way communication between managers and
scientists and how to open that process.
About Art McKee
Art McKee is Director Emeritus of the H.J.
Andrews Experimental Forest, an LTER site with Oregon State
University and is currently affiliated with the Univ. of Montana’s
Flathead Lake Biological Station. He grew up in northeastern
Vermont, and attended the Univ. of Vermont, Univ. of Maine, and the
Univ. of Georgia. His research interests include terrestrial/aquatic
interactions, successional dynamics of riparian and upland
communities, and landscape patterns of biological diversity. In
addition to 30-plus years of field research in the Pacific
Northwest, he has worked in the mountains of North Carolina, the
mountains of northern New England, the Colorado Rockies, the Sierra
Nevada, the North Slope and Brooks Range of Alaska, northern
Minnesota, and has served as advisor to ecological research programs
in China and Thailand for the World Bank and Rockefeller Foundation.
Series Schedule:
(click on date for more information)
January 29
12:00 Noon
University Union,
Havasupai Room |
Remote Landscapes and
High Biodiversity: Field Station Management in the
Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona
Wade Serbrooke, Ph.D.
Director, American Museum of Natural History
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February 19
12:00 Noon
University Union,
Havasupai Room |
Bringing scientists
together to solve problems: desertification and research
on the Jornada Experimental Range
Ed L. Frederickson
Research Scientist, New Mexico State University
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February 19
2:00 P.M.
University Union,
Havasupai Room |
The business of science
at a large field station: lessons from the Jornada
Experimental Range
Kris Havstad
Supervisory Scientist, New Mexico State University
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March 5
12:00 Noon
University Union,
Havasupai Room |
Biological Field
Stations: An opportunity to walk the talk
Phillipe S. Cohen, Ph.D.
Administrative Director, Stanford University
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March 12
12:00 Noon
University Union,
Havasupai Room |
Making the science
relevant to management and policy: lessons from the
Pacific Northwest
Art McKee
Director, Andrews Experimental Forest, The University of
Montana
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March 26
12:00 Noon
University Union,
Havasupai Room |
Land stewardship and
conservation in the Colorado Rockies: local, regional, and
global issues
John Harte
Professor of Environmental Sciences, University of
California, Berkeley
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April 1
12:00 Noon
University Union,
Kaibab Room |
Whole thinking for land
conservationists
Peter Forbes
Director, Trust for Public Land, Center for Land and
People |
All lectures are free, open to the
public, and handicap accessible.
Co-sponsored by:
Ecological Monitoring and Assessment
Merriam-Powell Center for Environmental Research
Centennial Forest
Trust for Public Lands
and the Diablo Trust
If you have questions, call David Fiss at (928) 523-7087
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